(Polchinok, 1890 – Schodnia, 1941)
Russian painter and printmaker, considered as one of the most famous of the Russian abstract artists.
An important collaborator with Chagall, El Lisstizky was the professor of architecture and graphic art at the art school in Vitebsk, where Chagall served as the head. He was also influenced by Malevich, a keen advocator of pure geometric forms in art. An example of his abstract paintings is the series Proun (Guggenheim Museum), which he referred to as ‘the interchange station between architecture and painting’.